The Collaborative International Dictionary

Davenport

Davenport \Dav"en*port\, n. [From the name of the original
maker. --Encyc. Dict.]
A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental,
and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.

A much battered davenport in one of the windows, at
which sat a lady writing. --A. B.
Edwards.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary

davenport

"large upholstered couch," 1897, apparently named for the manufacturer. Earlier (1853) "a kind of small ornamental writing table." The proper name is attested from 12c., from a place in Cheshire (Old English Devennport).

Wikipedia

Davenport is a federal electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1935.

Davenport (sofa)

Davenport was the name of a series of sofas made by the Massachusetts furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company, now defunct. Due to the popularity of the furniture at the time, the name davenport became a genericized trademark.

Davenport (surname)

Davenport is a surname, and may refer to:

Davenport (provincial electoral district)

Davenport is a provincial riding in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

It was created in 1999 from parts of Oakwood, Dovercourt, Parkdale, High Park—Swansea and a small part of York South.

When the riding was created, it included all of Metro Toronto within the following line: Dovercourt Road to the CN railway to the Old Toronto city limits to Old Weston Road to Rogers Road to another CN railway to Eglinton Avenue to Dufferin Street to Rogers Road to Oakwood Avenue to Holland Park Avenue to Winona Drive to Davenport Road to Ossington Avenue to the CP railway back to Dovercourt Road.

In 2007, the boundaries were extended in the east so that they continued along Ossington south of the CP railway until Dundas Street and in the northwest the boundary became Keele Street and Lavender Road instead of the old city limits.

Usage examples of "davenport".

At this point Adam saw his way sufficiently clear to adumbrate to Davenport with fair exactness what he wished hime to find out.

Davenport and Lewiston were too close to the porch, and below it, to see Butters as he came through, but Stadic, back in the dark, had just enough time to set his feet and lift the shotgun.

We help smugglers bring things in and out of Davenport Beach, and this last time we got careless and a flesher zombified us.

I hate what Hello does - strips wooden furniture, cabinets, Davenport chests, by immersing the furniture in sodium hydroxide solution then hosing it down.

As that was going on, Chief Davenport and Lieutenant Selle were seen laughing as they stood over the body of the attacker .

Peter Strevens and Russell Davenport were roughly the same age and the same build.

Armand, Davenport, Vinter, and Conway remained calm, behaving as if nothing unusual had occurred.

Davenport, Conway, Vinter, three of the French antiquaires associated with Etienne and Jacques Lafitte, and several of their allies crossed over to where Armand was standing and closed ranks around him.

Jack Shannon, his wily roommate, had spent their nights at barrelhouse piano saloons on the South Side, listening to musicians with names like Pine Top Smith, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Speckled Red, and Cow Cow Davenport pound the keys on their uprights.

Davenport and Lewiston were too close to the porch, and below it, to see Butters as he came through, but Stadic, back in the dark, had just enough time to set his feet and lift the shotgun.

Along with a dozen other visiting surgeons, Rich and Davenport had just finished watching a video of a laparoscopic hernia repair.

We placed her on a davenport in the music room, where for two hours I talked in turn with several spirits who had just been attracted from the patient.

After some casting about and a few false leads, we settled for a greasy spoon of sorts on Davenport, with vinyl seats and jukeboxes at the tables, stocked with country music and a sprinkling of old Beatles and Elvis Presley songs.

Pascoe sprang to the parapet, gripped one of the castellations with his left hand and caught Davenport by the jacket pocket.